Gyros control the direction that the telescope points ... Hubble had six fresh gyros in operation, following installation ...

The British journalist and author of "Midnight in Chernobyl" returns with his exhaustively-researched new book about the 1986 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — When Boeing's Starliner capsule carries two astronauts to space tonight (May 6), at least 100 people in Mission Control will ... since the space shuttle era that ...

No reason exists to prevent NASA and Isaacman from sitting down, airing the space agency’s concerns and developing a plan for ...

A new book details the errors that went into the disaster that doomed the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 ... McAuliffe and her six crewmates on mission STS-51-L were dead, after Challenger ...

Boeing is planning to launch its first crewed space mission in June without repairing a minor helium gas leak on its ...

Mission Control sheepishly admitted that they had simply lost it somewhere in space. “We can’t find ... Then an experiment designed to test the shuttle’s facility for orbital rendezvous ...

with stakes higher than they had been since the first mission to repair the telescope’s flawed vision. It would be the last space shuttle mission to Hubble, with the retirement of the shuttle ...

He says space shuttle astronauts used to stay at Hubble for ... in conjunction with ground control," says Altman. During the ...

He says space shuttle astronauts used to ... in conjunction with ground control,” says Altman. During the last servicing mission, Grunsfeld accidentally bumped his foot into one of the telescope ...

This time, she would have made history as the first woman to fly on a maiden crewed mission of a new space shuttle. Ms Williams went on her first space voyage on December 9, 2006, which lasted ...